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THE ARTWORLD

NEWS, VIEWS, INFORMATION AND SPECIAL EVENTS IN THE ART WORLD

RA SUMMER EXHIBITION

For over 250 years artists have been taking paintings

Drawing from life

Roger de Muth documents how his journey from professional illustrator to full-time artist has influenced his watercolours, including details of his plein-air painting kit and why he loves the Urban Sketchers movement

Catching the light and magic of watercolour

David Taylor shares his techniques for achieving spontaneity, light and atmosphere in watercolour paintings

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The intimate landscape

Sheila Goodman demonstrates how she likes to home-in on the landscape to find texture, colour and pattern, which she depicts using soft pastels

Create depth in your landscapes

Jenny Aitken shows you how to draw your viewer into your painting by creating the illusion of depth

Perspective and all that

In the second part of his new series on choosing colours for landscape painting, Martin Kinnear explains how to manage colours for visual design purposes

Backlit-trees

Carole Baker begins a two-part series by demonstrating how to create the effect of luminescent light in acrylics to capture a backlit treescape

PROVENCE

Ian Sidaway returned to Provence for inspiration for a set of paintings for a recent Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours exhibition. He describes how he painted them – and includes tips on entering open competitions

PROVENCE

It had been more than 35 years since I had last visited

The way of the brush

Hazel Soan concludes her three-part series by explaining how to perfect your brushstrokes in the dance of the brush

Rule of thumb

This month Ruth Buchanan reveals her methods for developing successful compositions from original reference material

Less is more

Knowing when to stop painting is a difficult choice for any artist. Robert Dutton discusses strategies to adopt to help you avoid overworking

Summer rose

Paint a vibrant rose in watercolour in just five stages with Paul Talbot-Greaves

Paint street scenes full of life and colour

Jake Winkle demonstrates how to capture the hustle and bustle of busy street scenes in watercolour using two different approaches

JULY

This month Geoff Hunt finds himself painting not only by the riverside but also out on the water

The Art of Trees

To celebrate Forestry England’s centenary year and the voluntary work of artists from the Bedgebury Pinetum Florilegium Society, we present some examples of their work which can be seen in a special exhibition at Bedgebury

EXHIBITIONS

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OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS

Check out the latest competitions to enter and make a note of important deadlines

Painters Online editor’s choice

Meet this month’s editor’s choice winner from our PaintersOnline gallery, who receives a £50 Jackson’s Art Supplies gift voucher

Packing, couriers and insurance

If you sell your work or enter competitions, you will be faced with the task of packing and despatching a painting to the customer or gallery. Mark David Hatwood advises on how to make sure it arrives safely